Modern networks are complex beasts. With this complexity comes many opportunities for things to go wrong. Additionally, networks are often the backbone of businesses, and so when they don’t perform to the best of their capabilities, your business may suffer. As a network administrator, this is certainly something you’d rather avoid. One of the best ways to avoid business-impacting issues is to see them coming and fix them before they have a chance to wreak havoc.

Mattermost Release v5.28 is generally available today. The new feature release offers granular administrator roles, certificate-based authentication with AD/LDAP, and in-product notifications. The release includes the following new features.

Anyone who’s worked in IT knows a great deal of the day-to-day work doesn’t come down to one secret trick—the job consists mainly of stringing together hard-won wisdom and convenient Google searches to solve problems. Working in IT is a little like parenting; when you’re first told you need to pick up your children’s LEGO bricks every day, you say, “Really? Is it really necessary to do it every single day?” But you only have to step on one at 1 a.m.

In my last post, we talked about the Android Enterprise features that are going to be the most useful in supply chain. (If you missed it, you can see it here: The Most Important Android Enterprise Features for Supply Chain.) Those are aspects of Android Enterprise that are going to make your life easier. However, to get there, we have to go through a bit of a hard transition.

Recently, Catchpoint participated in the virtual Networking Field Day. As a presenting sponsor, we spoke about the importance of network monitoring and the shift in enterprises’ strategic initiatives supporting user experience monitoring. For an hour, the discussion focused on how the digital experiences for employees and customers are converging. Enterprises are shifting to measure and monitor the tenets of reachability, availability, performance, and reliability.

Apply rules simplifies creation of objects like Service, Notification, Dependency, ScheduleDowntime which require object relation. In this blog post we will understand rule based monitoring with Icinga apply rules with examples.

Data security improvements can be an expensive necessity, but there are ways to make those improvements for free using your network and systems management data. While your network and systems management platform can’t replace your SIEM or IDS, making these improvements can improve your efficiency in a variety of valuable ways. If you monitor down to the individual switch port level, which we always recommend, you’ll have very granular data that can be used to spot changes in behavior.

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We’re pretty sure using a real incident to test a new response process is not the best idea. So, how do you test your process ahead of time? In this video, FireHydrant CEO, Robert Ross, shared how our customers leverage best practices to break, mitigate, resolve, and fireproof incident processes.

Free application monitoring tools are the go-to options for small organizations with limited IT budgets. However, with the number of tools available, which ones should you use? In this article, let’s analyze several free application monitoring tools that allow you to effectively pinpoint application performance issues.